Friction-gear.



A'UNITED STATES PAT ENT OFFICE.

101m F` O'CONOR. 0F GHXGAGO. ILLINOIS' ASSIGNOR To WILLIAM H. MINER. 0F

cHAzY, 'NEW YORK.

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on@ of thv.v friction .Hhovsenlplnywl with my which will insure :muppl-iuzplpm n'lvthv, presnpecca Linn of Letters Patent.

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lr-n-lum Shops :unl pussllnhllv nl Ilw num lof sind shoes relatively tothe shell, of menns for insuring n uniform application of the spring,rresistance to movement or' nll of `Huid shoes, said means including nwnsher interposed hetween Suid `wpriug means und sind shoes :mduniformly spaced circumferentiully urrunged projections on seid shoesund ugninst which seid washer hears.

3.111 :i friction gear, the eomhinution with :1 plurality ot' frictionshoes`r und `wpring means forV resisting movement thereof, of u washerinterposed hetween said spring means und Suid shoes, euch of snid shoesheing provided with a rndinlly exlendingalr rib tapered toward thecenter of the geur.

l. As nn article of nmnut'uctnre, n fric` tion shoe for friction (fears,seid shoe haring :in outer cylindrical 'rietion foce, an inner wedgefalce, land n flange on its inner face i perpendieular to the frictionfuee,said Him e l)ein; r provided on the side remote from t e wedgefaire, with u radially extending 'l'ib on which `Spring.' pressure isadapted to be applied.

f, friction shoe for friction geurs, said lhoe linrug nu outer frictionface, nn inner wedge l'nee nud n [longe on its inner face, Huid linngebeing provided with u rib on the Pide away from Suid wedge face, seidrib being,r tapered tow-.lrd the free edge of said lhmge.

In witness that I claim the foregoing I here hereunto subscribed my numethis th day of October 1915.

JOHN F. OCONNOR.

